I have been a fan of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series for a while. Now I am reading the books that interweave into that world. I've read Salem's Lot, It, The Stand and Insomnia. Right now, I am reading Hearts in Atlantis about Ted Braughtigan and the low men.

Lately, I'm on a Dean Koontz kick. I've been reading these really dense and long fantasy books that took me 3 weeks to read. I blast throguh the Koontz books in like 2 days, so I've been reading them as kind of a break. Currently in the middle of Brother Odd, the 3rd in the Odd Thomas series.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

I went to a doctor the other day, and all he did was suck blood out of my neck. Never go see Dr. Acula - Mitch Hedberg

I get up every day, and I live. Everybody says you should live to the fullest, but what is it? No one knows until you come so close that you're not worried about anything else but being alive."~ Jiri Fischermy heart belongs to a canadian!

I am reading The Color of Water for one of my classes next year. I must say if you are trying to find a good book to read Blue Like Jazz is the best one I have ever read. It changed my life Im not even kidding.

A book I thought that was good was The Devil Wears Prada ...tho I warn that its not like the movie. There are very few parts that are like the movie.

I get up every day, and I live. Everybody says you should live to the fullest, but what is it? No one knows until you come so close that you're not worried about anything else but being alive."~ Jiri Fischermy heart belongs to a canadian!

I just finished Stephen King's "The Green Mille". What a sad book. Now I can see the movie. Getting ready to start J.R.R/Chris Tolkien's " The Children of Hurin" and awaiting the new Harry Potter book on Saturday.

I am reading The Color of Water for one of my classes next year. I must say if you are trying to find a good book to read Blue Like Jazz is the best one I have ever read. It changed my life Im not even kidding.

I'm not reading anything right now, but I was flipping through books earlier tonight and read through a chapter or two of The Things They Carried. It's fiction focusing on brief clips and stories from the Vietnam war apparently...

Honestly, I'm not too sold on the book, but the writing style has my interest piqued. It's not a stupid piece of fiction that is all like, "set in such and such era, here are your characters, this is the convoluted story, now go eat all this crap up because all you wanted was a book about Subject Whatever and that's placed in This Specific Time Period". It's not that at all. It's more like verbal snapshots that paint specific pictures on specific experiences in the war, albeit (how much I don't know, and this is another thing I'm wary of) fictional

I'll go pick it up some other time, but the mark against the book I have--and I'm not sure how many people would know what I mean, but if you do then you'll get this--is that while the narrative style is sharp and VERY engaging, it relies on being very descriptive and having a lot of adjectives - the guy who wrote it is basically a verbal artist, and that's cool.

But it doesn't lend well to being a truly "great book", it just means you write in a way that'll engage someone's imagination and that (too) is cool. The downside though is that it also means you might not really have anything great to say either. Not anything bad to say (again either), but certainly not stellar or that could put you up as having Written Something Truly Memorable. Sometimes you have both, but the two don't always go hand in hand as the same gift with people or writers.

/review over

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And to leave a reply on a book -without- adding a huge assuming overview, ever hear of From Baghdad, With Love? I'll just say this, it's nothing more than a story about "A Soldier and his rescued (eventually)-from-Iraq Dog", but it's really endearing.

And I don't have a pref for war books, just to note, these two just happened to stand out to me. From Baghdad is a nice contrast to all the other stuff in Iraq though if you're the type who can enjoy a simple book at facevalue every so often. I did.

I just finished Stephen King's "The Green Mille". What a sad book. Now I can see the movie.

I thought the movie was fascinating, the book has to be double that.

QUOTE(zetterberg_fan_40 @ July 18, 2007 - 11:06AM)

I am reading The Color of Water for one of my classes next year. I must say if you are trying to find a good book to read Blue Like Jazz is the best one I have ever read. It changed my life Im not even kidding.

I've heard of BLJ, and I've heard of The Color of Water... I don't remember what it was about though. Maybe I'll google that right now.